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Romans 9

The Bible in Basic English BBE

1 I say what is true in Christ, and not what is false, my mind giving witness with me in the Holy Spirit,

2 That I am full of sorrow and pain without end.

3 For I have a desire to take on myself the curse for my brothers, my family in the flesh:

4 Who are Israelites: who have the place of sons, and the glory, and the agreements with God, and the giving of the law, and the worship, and the hope offered by God:

5 Whose are the fathers, and of whom came Christ in the flesh, who is over all, God, to whom be blessing for ever. So be it.

6 But it is not as if the word of God was without effect. For they are not all Israel, who are of Israel:

7 And they are not all children because they are the seed of Abraham; but, In Isaac will your seed be named.

8 That is, it is not the children of the flesh, but the children of God's undertaking, who are named as the seed.

9 For this is the word of God's undertaking, At this time will I come, and Sarah will have a son.

10 And not only so, but Rebecca being about to have a child by our father Isaac--

11 Before the children had come into existence, or had done anything good or bad, in order that God's purpose and his selection might be effected, not by works, but by him whose purpose it is,

12 It was said to her, The older will be the servant of the younger.

13 Even as it is said, I had love for Jacob, but for Esau I had hate.

14 What may we say then? is God not upright? let it not be said.

15 For he says to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and pity on whom I will have pity.

16 So then, it is not by the desire or by the attempt of man, but by the mercy of God.

17 For the holy Writings say to Pharaoh, For this same purpose did I put you on high, so that I might make my power seen in you, and that there might be knowledge of my name through all the earth.

18 So then, at his pleasure he has mercy on a man, and at his pleasure he makes the heart hard.

19 But you will say to me, Why does he still make us responsible? who is able to go against his purpose?

20 But, O man, who are you, to make answer against God? May the thing which is made say to him who made it, Why did you make me so?

21 Or has not the potter the right to make out of one part of his earth a vessel for honour, and out of another a vessel for shame?

22 What if God, desiring to let his wrath and his power be seen, for a long time put up with the vessels of wrath which were ready for destruction:

23 And to make clear the wealth of his glory to vessels of mercy, which he had before made ready for glory,

24 Even us, who were marked out by him, not only from the Jews, but from the Gentiles?

25 As he says in Hosea, They will be named my people who were not my people, and she will be loved who was not loved.

26 And in the place where it was said to them, You are not my people, there they will be named the sons of the living God.

27 And Isaiah says about Israel, Even if the number of the children of Israel is as the sand of the sea, only a small part will get salvation:

28 For the Lord will give effect to his word on the earth, putting an end to it and cutting it short.

29 And, as Isaiah had said before, If the Lord of armies had not given us a seed, we would have been like Sodom and Gomorrah.

30 What then may we say? That the nations who did not go after righteousness have got righteousness, even the righteousness which is of faith:

31 But Israel, going after a law of righteousness, did not get it.

32 Why? Because they were not searching for it by faith, but by works. They came up against the stone which was in the way;

33 As it is said, See, I am putting in Zion a stone causing a fall, and a rock in the way: but he who has faith in him will not be put to shame.

Good News Translation GNT

1 I am speaking the truth; I belong to Christ and I do not lie. My conscience, ruled by the Holy Spirit, also assures me that I am not lying

2 when I say how great is my sorrow, how endless the pain in my heart

3 for my people, my own flesh and blood! For their sake I could wish that I myself were under God's curse and separated from Christ.

4 They are God's people; he made them his children and revealed his glory to them; he made his covenants with them and gave them the Law; they have the true worship; they have received God's promises;

5 they are descended from the famous Hebrew ancestors; and Christ, as a human being, belongs to their race. May God, who rules over all, be praised forever! Amen.

6 I am not saying that the promise of God has failed; for not all the people of Israel are the people of God.

7 Nor are all of Abraham's descendants the children of God. God said to Abraham, "It is through Isaac that you will have the descendants I promised you."

8 This means that the children born in the usual way are not the children of God; instead, the children born as a result of God's promise are regarded as the true descendants.

9 For God's promise was made in these words: "At the right time I will come back, and Sarah will have a son."

10 And this is not all. For Rebecca's two sons had the same father, our ancestor Isaac.

11 But in order that the choice of one son might be completely the result of God's own purpose, God said to her, "The older will serve the younger." He said this before they were born, before they had done anything either good or bad; so God's choice was based on his call, and not on anything they had done.

13 As the scripture says, "I loved Jacob, but I hated Esau."

14 Shall we say, then, that God is unjust? Not at all.

15 For he said to Moses, "I will have mercy on anyone I wish; I will take pity on anyone I wish."

16 So then, everything depends, not on what we humans want or do, but only on God's mercy.

17 For the scripture says to the king of Egypt, "I made you king in order to use you to show my power and to spread my fame over the whole world."

18 So then, God has mercy on anyone he wishes, and he makes stubborn anyone he wishes.

19 But one of you will say to me, "If this is so, how can God find fault with anyone? Who can resist God's will?"

20 But who are you, my friend, to talk back to God? A clay pot does not ask the man who made it, "Why did you make me like this?"

21 After all, the man who makes the pots has the right to use the clay as he wishes, and to make two pots from the same lump of clay, one for special occasions and the other for ordinary use.

22 And the same is true of what God has done. He wanted to show his anger and to make his power known. But he was very patient in enduring those who were the objects of his anger, who were doomed to destruction.

23 And he also wanted to reveal his abundant glory, which was poured out on us who are the objects of his mercy, those of us whom he has prepared to receive his glory.

24 For we are the people he called, not only from among the Jews but also from among the Gentiles.

25 This is what he says in the book of Hosea: "The people who were not mine I will call "My People.' The nation that I did not love I will call "My Beloved.'

26 And in the very place where they were told, "You are not my people,' there they will be called the children of the living God."

27 And Isaiah exclaims about Israel: "Even if the people of Israel are as many as the grains of sand by the sea, yet only a few of them will be saved;

28 for the Lord will quickly settle his full account with the world."

29 It is as Isaiah had said before, "If the Lord Almighty had not left us some descendants, we would have become like Sodom, we would have been like Gomorrah."

30 So we say that the Gentiles, who were not trying to put themselves right with God, were put right with him through faith;

31 while God's people, who were seeking a law that would put them right with God, did not find it.

32 And why not? Because they did not depend on faith but on what they did. And so they stumbled over the "stumbling stone"

33 that the scripture speaks of: "Look, I place in Zion a stone that will make people stumble, a rock that will make them fall. But whoever believes in him will not be disappointed."